Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom has occupied many corners of the political map, from Republican to Democrat to official leader of a Republican-dominated coalition that runs the state Senate with an iron hand. Now, while saying he’ll run for re-election as a Democrat, Tom has hired a fiery Republican political operative to run his re-election […]
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The barriers to diversity in America may be fast crumbling, but five male citadels show only small cracks – the Sunday TV talk programs on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News and CNN. A pair of new studies, by the Women’s Media Center and Media Matters for America, show that white men constitute the majority […]
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This year, social media has replaced pundits and spinners as the most important agenda setters in presidential campaign. A case in point was Romney’s clumsy comment that he relied “binders full of — of women” to fill jobs in his Massachusetts administration. The phrase instantly became a trending topic on social media and has remained a popular subject (of ridicule and commentary) for the day after the debate.
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